Public transport provider continues to support reliability, safety
and productivity of its buses, ferries and trains with Mincom Ellipse 8
solution for asset, work management and field enablement

BRISBANE, Australia — (BUSINESS WIRE) — November 21, 2011 —
Mincom Transit Forum, AusRAIL Plus 2011 —
Mincom,
now part of
ABB
and a leading global provider of software and services to
asset-intensive industries, today announced a significant new contract
with the Public Transport Authority (
PTA)
of Western Australia.

Under the agreement, Mincom will support a substantial upgrade of the
asset-management processes of the PTA, which provides integrated road,
rail and ferry services in the greater metropolitan area of Perth (the
State capital), as well as rail and coach services throughout regional
Western Australia.

By upgrading to
Mincom
Ellipse 8, one of the industry’s most modern, mobile-enabled
Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
solutions for asset-intensive businesses, the PTA can optimize its
asset-management processes, which will help to minimize asset failures
and improve productivity.

Mincom Ellipse 8 will also integrate with PTA’s Geographical Information
System (GIS), delivering full geospatial visibility of its assets and
significantly enhancing decision-making capabilities. By geo-tagging
assets and events in order to detect patterns and dispatch resources,
conditions observed in the field can be quickly and reliably shared,
enabling the organization to respond more quickly to delays and
interruptions, and bring services back online quickly.

“With thousands of people relying on our assets every day to get them to
their destinations safely, it is essential we adopt powerful
asset-management technology based on modern best practices,” said Kevin
Kirk, executive director, finance and contracts at the PTA. “Upgrading
to Mincom Ellipse 8 enables us to further improve our administrative
processes, capital spending and project budgeting by consolidating data
to achieve a single source of information about our assets.”

The PTA’s asset-management processes will be further enhanced through
its adoption of the
Mincom
Mobility field-enablement solution, which extends asset management
and business processes into the field, where the work is being
performed. By implementing mobile applications, such as
Mincom
Mobile Inspector and
Mobile
Worker, as well as the Mincom Permit to Work safety solution, PTA
can connect its asset maintenance workers directly to critical business
systems in the field using mobile devices such as laptops, tablets and
PDAs.

“With more than 30 years of experience serving asset-intensive
industries, Mincom understands the critical nature of transit businesses
responsible for managing many different types of assets across multiple
modes of transport – from fixed assets and equipment to buses, ferries,
trains and railway infrastructure,” said John Moran, Mincom’s regional
vice president of public infrastructure. “We’re pleased to expand upon
our 20-year partnership with the PTA to ensure the agency continues to
leverage best practices, maximizing the value of its assets while
ensuring the safety of its passengers and workers.”

Mincom Ellipse is one of the most comprehensive EAM and ERP solutions
designed expressly for industries with asset-intensive operating
environments, such as transportation. Mincom Ellipse provides companies
in asset-heavy industries with a fully integrated and mobile-enabled
suite of business-critical applications that improves return on assets,
while also addressing the challenges inherent in remote and
geographically dispersed operations that distinguish these industries
from corporate-office environments.

About Mincom

Mincom, now part of the
ABB
Group, is a global software and services provider with more than 30
years of experience in providing business solutions to companies in
asset-intensive industries, such as mining, energy, defense and public
infrastructure, in more than 40 countries around the world. Mincom
customers include Anglo American, Thales, Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton,
Boeing, National Grid, London Underground, Xstrata Copper, Western
Power, QBuild, BNSF Railway, EDF Energy, Caterpillar and Ecopetrol. For
more information about Mincom, visit
www.mincom.com.